Centre Aims

What does the Scottish Hazards Centre provide?

The ultimate aim of the Scottish Hazards Centre is to reduce work-related injury, ill health and death through increasing knowledge and awareness, improving health and safety practice and developing effective worker involvement. We will achieve this by providing:

information, advice and support on occupational health and safety to individual workers, groups of workers, health and safety reps, voluntary organisations and community groups;

training in occupational health and safety issues;

support for worker and community involvement in research and action on work-related issues;

The Centre is designed to benefit those without adequate access to occupational health and safety support and therefore, seeks to target non-unionised workers. Our firm message in all that we do is: union workplaces are safer workplaces.

Particular emphasis is placed on reaching those known to be most exposed to risks, including: those in non-unionised workplaces; those new to work or working in precarious employment; those living in areas of deprivation; migrant workers and refugees; those working in SMEs; those working in the third sector; home and agency workers; and those with protected characteristics within the meaning of the Equality Act 2010 (e.g. those with disabilities; those from ethnic minority communities; and both younger and older workers).